This is just scary- how horrible for the families! It makes me wonder about the families all over the world that are shipped back unidentifiable remains…
Australia was sent the wrong body after the nation’s first soldier died in Iraq, Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said.
Australia Sent Wrong Body After First Soldier Dies in Iraq
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Going goth is no way to make friends - at least at Jetstar.
An attendant (who also works as a model) was recently fired for her dark eye-makeup and nail color…despite looking the same as she did when she was hired.
Can anybody say, lawsuit?
From Jetstar sacks attendant over looks
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More problems for the ‘bloody’ advertising campaign…they don’t know how to translate it into other languages! This could be an issue, seeing as how Japanese are one of the top target groups for the Australian Tourism Board….
Japan’s customary extreme politeness has proved an obstacle to Western copy writers attempting to write clever advertising punch lines. Japanese just don’t get the bloody joke
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Spoofs quickly followed the release of the controversial tourism video ‘Where the Bloody Hell are You?’. I’ve gotten one with political undertones via email, with ‘bloody’ changed to ‘fuckin’ and a user also brought another tourism spoof to my attention. This one’s a little more volatile, but amusing for anyone who knows their Australian history.
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Further proof that global wraming is coming to get you after the hardest storm in 30 years trashed northeastern Queensland on Monday.
Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country’s eastern coast Monday.
Amazingly, the storm caused no reported fatalities, and only 30 people suffered minor injuries. But the damage from Cyclone Larry, a Category 5 storm with winds up to 180 mph, was expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. From Thousands Feared Homeless in …
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Two Australian woman are coping with their injuries sustained this week during the third attack in the Sinai peninsula in a year and a half.
Both women are in stable condition and undergoing surgery soon.
Injured Aussies arrive in Cairo
See also Australian tells of terror escape
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Three Australians will be celebrating their next nine-13 birthdays in prison after being sentenced for attempting to smuggle 700+ grams of heroin in their stomachs from Hong Kong to Sydney last year. Although they initially plead innocent, they changed their minds and went with ‘guilty’ after realizing that, yeah, they were…and no, mommy wasn’t going to bail them out of jail.
Drug Smugglers Sentenced
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The tourism controversy hasn’t gone away - a guest column reams the advertisement, saying that tourism Australia would be better off catering to the rick, stuffy folk. With rich, stuffy ads. Bah. I think she would be better off in the UK. Then again, that’s the backpacker in me speaking…
BLOODY hell. Those new ocker Aussie ads designed to bring in high spenders to our fair land are an embarrassment. The Brits were right in banning them. They were doing what any motherly soul does with a headstrong adolescent hell-bent on making a fool of itself. She …
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Around 7,000 people have been left homeless in the aftermath of Cyclone Larry. The hardest hit town, Innisfail, held a massive BBQ yesterday to feed the local community with meat from butchers who were without power, and would otherwise go to waste.
Trucks carrying soldiers rumbled through the streets of Innisfail, the town of 8,500 that bore the brunt of category-5 Cyclone Larry when it slammed into the coast of northeast Australia just before dawn Monday. See Australia Cyclone Update
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I don’t know why, but kangaroos in other countries - especially ones with snow - always crack me up. This is no exception:
VIENNA, Austria - A kangaroo led police in southern Austria on a snow chase Thursday after it jumped the fence of its cage and decided to explore its wintry surroundings.
The marsupial — discovered on a country road about 3 miles outside the town of St. Veit in the province of Carinthia — kept hopping away from perplexed police trying to rein it in, local police officer Joerg Fortin said.
In the end, a local veterinarian helped capture …
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